The sound of chaotic footsteps sounded in the street.
"Is there any quilt?"
"Who still has quilts?"
Hearing the shout from outside the door, the little girl who was sitting upright on a small wooden bench holding a broom in the yard immediately turned around.
"Mother, mother, put away the quilt." She shouted.
A woman ran out of the house with quilts in her arms, and the little girl opened the door. Many people in the alley were already running to the street with quilts in their arms.
These quilts ranged from new to old, and they were quickly piled up in a thick pile. Watching the pile full of people pulling carts, they immediately rushed to the city wall.
Compared with the quietness on the street, there are crowds of people around the city wall. As soon as the quilt cart arrives, there are waiting people who unload their backs and pedal towards the city wall.
Strips of quilts were draped over the city walls. From a distance, the entire four sides of the city walls were covered with quilts. As the quilts were hung, the women who had already been waiting poured out the water in the buckets.
The minding came and went in this way one after another, and beside them were people carrying stones on their backs and carrying logs up and down, chanting chant and noisy, but orderly, busy but not chaotic.
A sudden scream came from outside, and everyone felt a dull crashing sound above their heads. This was the sound of stone bullets hitting the city wall. Because the cover of the wet bedding could reduce the damage to the city wall, but it blocked Stones could not stop rolling over the city walls.
"Get down and get down."
"Wall against wall."
Shouts of panic sounded chaotically, even so, someone was hit by a stone, and there was a shrill scream. There was a panic under the city gate, but someone still ran over to lift the injured person and ran to the inner street.
The houses facing the street were all vacant, and Old Doctor Feng and others guarded here, directing the injured people to be carried in to start treatment.
The stones are no longer rolling down, and the wounded under the city gate have been resettled, but the stones scattered on the ground and the blood stains still make people feel heavy.
"The golden man's stone bullets can already be thrown in, have those trenches been filled?"
The people leaning on the city wall discussed in low voices.
"The trenches were never expected to hold back the gold soldiers."
The generals standing on the city wall looked at the outside of the city with solemn expressions at this time, and the catapults that they could see were slowly approaching here under the cover of the shield vehicles.
"For the Jin people, the speed of filling the ditch is slow enough," said a general. "It seems that they are not in a hurry to attack the city."
The golden soldiers approaching the city gate were neatly lined up with bright armors, but there were not many of them, and their expressions were not vicious, but rather playful.
"The height of the capital city is indeed different from other places."
Yu Chihai, who was standing under a large banner in the middle of the army array, said with a nudge, looking at the city ahead with a relaxed expression.
"The last time I came here, I took a closer look."
As he spoke, he took a few steps forward.
"Thousands of miles of clouds, overlooked like a Big Dipper, exquisitely built brilliantly, and troops are stationed in secret passages."
What a poem.
But there was no admiration from the surroundings, Yu Chihai looked back, these crude generals were either looking greedily at the city in front of them, thinking of the treasures and beauties inside, or looking at him in a daze, It seems that they just don't understand why they haven't attacked yet.
Savage and boring.
Yu Chihai's mood was a little waning.
"No matter how tall and thick this city is, our warriors will definitely be able to conquer it." A gold general eagerly said, "The cities encountered along the way are stronger than those in the Northland, but so what."
"Those soldiers will be vulnerable." Another golden general laughed with his hands on his hips.
Yu Chihai looked ahead with a smile.
"Yes, so such a solid city can be ignored." He said, "What we want to attack is not the city gate, but the hearts of the people inside."
He said and took another step forward.
"Break their courage, break their spirits, smash their knees, and make them bow before us."
These words were much more pleasant than the messy poems and words just now, and the golden generals around him burst into laughter.
"However." Yu Chihai frowned slightly again, "This capital city is a little different from what I imagined."
"How is it different?" asked the generals around him.
Yu Chihai looked at the densely packed trenches in front of him and the potholed ground in the distance, it was obviously newly dug out, the original capital city gate was repaired and leveled.
To be able to dig so many and deep trenches in a short period of time shows that a lot of manpower must have been used.
Resisting horses in trenches is essential for defending the city. To be able to do so must have known the arrival of the Jin soldiers, but knowing that the arrival of the Jin soldiers can organize such a large amount of manpower and material resources to do this, it can be seen that the people in the city have not yet panicked and dispersed.
Moreover, the villages and towns near the capital that I passed just now were all empty, and there were no scattered people running in all directions along the way.
"It seems that the people here in the capital are much calmer than before." Yu Chihai said with a smile, with some admiration, "As expected of the people under the emperor's feet."
After saying that, the smile in his eyes became cold, and he raised his hand and waved it.
"The superior shield."
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"We can throw stones, too."
A general who looked at the golden soldiers outside the city gate through the crenel on the city wall said in a low voice.
"No, come closer, or throwing stones will be a waste." Another general said...
Throwing stones is mainly used for attacking the city, and for the counterattack, it is aimed at the shield chariots. At this time, the shield chariots of the golden soldiers are also protected by layers. If they want to hit with one hit, they need to get closer.
When the two said this, although their expressions were tense, they were not too scared, probably because they could see the Qingshan army's gun carriage in the middle out of the corner of their eyes.
This is a more powerful weapon than throwing stones. Of course, the Qingshan army said that it is not used now, and it will be used when the Jin soldiers approach the city. When it is thrown, it can kill one, and it will be the most effective and deterrent.
At present, it is enough to use stone bullets at a distance and then use a bow and crossbow at a distance.
The generals were a little nervous and inexplicably excited, waiting for the slow-moving shield chariot to come closer and on the potholed road, and then issued an order to throw stones, but suddenly the advancing shield chariot stopped, and there was a commotion in the golden army behind. Then drive out a group of people.
Seeing these people, the generals on the city wall couldn't help but stare wide-eyed.
This is a group of Zhou people, ranging from men to women, old and young, crying and crying under the whipping of Jinbing's whip.
"Listen, people inside, open the city gate quickly."
More than a dozen Jin soldiers galloped forward and shouted loudly in Zhou language.
"Open the city gate, you can save your life and worry about it."
They shouted over and over again, and then turned their horses around Zhou Min who was being driven.
These golden soldiers had already reached the range of their bows and crossbows, but there was no order to shoot on the city wall, and everyone looked at the people who were being driven closer and closer with complicated expressions.
Behind these people, the shield chariot and the golden soldiers attacking the city moved again.
"My lord." A lieutenant couldn't help shouting in a low voice.
What can we do now? Order stone-throwing? That would make it obvious that these Zhou people were the first to be hurt.
"This damn shameless golden man." A general slammed down the city wall.
But if you don't throw stones, the long ladders for the shield chariots of the golden soldiers to attack the city will come under the city gate.
More than a dozen golden soldiers rode closer again, and deliberately shot at the city wall with bows and crossbows, full of provocations.
At this time, if you stand up and use a crossbow, you can definitely shoot a few golden soldiers to death.
Some soldiers could not help but move their bodies.
"No movement without orders." A wooden voice came from behind.
The soldier froze immediately, not daring to move at all, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw an old woman standing behind him.
The old woman looked at him for a moment, then continued to patrol forward along the city wall, turning a deaf ear to the cries and curses coming from under the city gate.
Zhou Min was driven closer and closer, and the shield car was driving slowly on the potholed road but also getting closer.
"cast."
Suddenly, an order came from the city wall.
The stone slingers who had been waiting for a long time immediately threw the stone bullets.
For a while, stones flew down the city gate like rain.
Under the city gate, there were shattered shield chariots and the screams and curses of Jin soldiers, mixed with Zhou Min's terrified cries.
Jin Jiang, who was standing in the distance, was furious when he saw this scene.
Unexpectedly, the Zhou people were like this. Seeing their people being driven and whipped, they didn't immediately stand up angrily.
With a livid face, he ordered the gold soldiers of the shield chariot to retreat, and waved his hands fiercely.
Accompanied by this wave of hands, the golden cavalry scattered due to the stone bomb attack immediately regrouped, surrounded the crying Zhou Min with knives and spears.
Hearing the cries and screams of the people outside, everyone on the city wall was ashen-faced, the soldiers were still restrained, and the peasants were trembling uncontrollably.
Even so, no one jumped up, not even scolding loudly.
This is because the Qingshan Army has repeatedly reiterated that when fighting, they must not turn their heads, must not move without permission, and must not see the enemy making noise, otherwise they will be dealt with by military law.
And at this time, there were also a few old and weak women and children patrolling and staring at them on the city wall.
The cries outside the city gradually disappeared and returned to calm.
It is conceivable that those people have been killed.
There was still no sound on the city wall, and there was no commotion at all. This silent response made the golden soldiers outside the city even more annoyed.
"If you don't surrender, you will end up like this after the city is broken."
The shouts and curses of Jin Bing came from outside the city.
The people on the city wall were not really unresponsive, they were angry and disappointed, and more civilians thought that if they ran out of the capital at the beginning, they would be the ones slaughtered under the city gate at this time.
The Jin people are so cruel, and the wars are so bloody and ruthless. At this moment, they are no longer listening to a few words of preaching in restaurants and teahouses, nor are they watching the refugees fleeing and mourning, but they really feel it.
Just then, a drum sounded.
The soldier Ding Minfu was already familiar with the meaning of the drums and gongs, and he started to move almost subconsciously.
The soldiers lifted their covers and fired salvos at the golden bows and crossbows under the city gate, and the peasants rolled stones, large and small, into the catapults one by one.
For a while, there were screams outside the city gate.
The golden cavalry who were still under the city gate fell off their horses one after another, and the shield chariots that retreated but were still within the range of the stone bullets were also smashed, and the approaching golden soldiers began to retreat rapidly.
Yu Chihai, who stood on the sidelines watching all this, had a heavy expression on his face, and at this time the golden soldiers who were going to attack other city gates also heard such a description of the battle.
"Didn't it mean that there are not many officers and soldiers in the capital? And they are all soldiers and servants guarding the gate who have never killed anyone." He said, frowning slightly, "How can there be such strict preparations for battle? Su's army."